I know a lot of you hate remakes, but that's mostly because we're used to them being so bad. Which makes it inexcusable that so many should turn out for crap like A Nightmare on Elm Street and almost completely ignore a quality piece of filmmaking like Let Me In. We vote with our wallets, remember? Sadly no one voted for Let Me In, despite its "critical darling" status (our own Mr. Disgusting called it better than the original) – a rare feat for a horror film. As a result it grossed a meager $5.1 million its first weekend, on its way to a paltry $11.9 million total. People can ***** all they want about the despicable state of the movie industry, but as long as audiences fail to support quality cinema we'll just continue to be fed more middle-of-the-road bullshit. EPIC FAIL
I will buy the DVD when it comes out.
Lionsgate's handling of the Buried release
I'm not quite sure I understand what happened here. After coming off enormous buzz following its Sundance debut earlier this year, both for Rodrigo Cortes' ability to wring maximum tension out of a film taking place entirely inside a coffin and a harrowing portrayal by lead actor Ryan Reynolds, Lionsgate picked up the film for an amount estimated between $3 and $4 million. It's the kind of money that indicates a studio has quite a bit of faith in a film, and yet Lionsgate fumbled by not, you know, marketing the thing. And that's unfortunate; with a buzz-worthy premise, a "name" lead actor and good critical notices, it should have done – and deserved to do – better. EPIC FAIL
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The Giallo thing amuses me, I've seen Giallo and it's absolutely rubbish, I reckon another reason Brody has 'really' stopped it getting a release in America is because he is so embarrassed by it...
it was boring, pointless and has one of the worst endings.
This list is bogus though. Yeah, there are a few things mentioned in the list that are relevant but there were fair worse failures that most of the crap on there. How the hell are you going to list Jonah Hex over, Survival of the Dead. Jonah Hex actually wasn't bad for it's genre.
Heres my list.
Nightmare on Elm Street
George Romeros Survival of the dead.
Descent 2
Last Exorcism
My soul to take
Paranormal Activity 2
Splice
Resident Evil Afterlife
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The only redeeming scenes were in the barn and the bit when she was on top of the cupboard staring at the camera...Genuinely freaky and unsettling scenes/acting.
The rest of it?...Utterly utterly dire beyond belief...
I saw it at the cinema and it was relatively busy and at the end the whole cinema just sat there in total silence thinking "is that it?"...It was left for me to say loudly enough for everyone to hear..."Well that was the biggest load of shite I've seen for ages"
because of the wasted potential. I suppose it was the writing of the two main characters that killed this movie for me. Instead of being an intellectual scifi/horror flick it quickly became a stupid and inconsistent B movie. Don't be fooled by the budget. Midway through the movie the two main (human characters) became nothing more than easy plot conveniences. Their choices and behavior was not consistent with the establishment of their character or morals. They were there simply to give the story an outlet to deliver the poorly written second half.
I still like the concept but, for me, it really failed in the execution. For being so smart, those scientists were all kinds of stupid. The decisions they made were so far separated from rationality it made it impossible for me to suspend disbelief. It's not that i can't understand that people make bad choices but every decision made by the main characters were ridiculous and just lacked common sense.
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Yeah, that may very well be true. I never read much of the comics so i didn't have any expectations. It really isn't a bad movie, regardless of whether or not it's a faithful adaptation and we all know that comic book movies are never reviewed and criticized on whether or not it's a faithful adaptation. So, this leaves me wondering why so many reviewers decided to condemn this movie as hard as they did. Sure, it's not a great but for it's genre it was fine and even has some really good qualities. Some of the reviews i read concentrated on how cheesy it is. The thing they failed to realize is that it's very apparent that the cheese was intentional.
I mean, do you think it's really that bad?
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Nov 25th, 2010 08:05 AM
What was so bad about it?
